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Elmer Austin Benson (September 22, 1895 – March 13, 1985) was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota. In 1935, Benson was appointed to the U.S. Senate following the death of Thomas Schall. He served as the 24th governor of Minnesota, defeating Republican Martin Nelson in a landslide in Minnesota's 1936 gubernatorial election.
ELMER A. BENSON, the twenty-fourth governor of Minnesota, was born in Appleton, Minnesota on September 2, 1895. His early education was attained in the Minnesota public schools, and later at St. Paul College, where he earned a law degree in 1918.
U.S. Senator, Minnesota Governor. He graduated from the St. Paul College of Law, in 1918 and during the World War I, he served as a Private in the U.S. Army, (1918-19). After the war, he was admitted to the bar, but did not practice law choosing to engage in banking and the retail clothing business.
Elmer Austin Benson (September 22, 1895 – March 13, 1985) was a politician from the state of Minnesota. He was appointed as a Farmer-Laborite member of the U.S. Senate on December 27, 1935 and did not seek election when the term expired on November 3, 1936.
Elmer Benson was elected in 1936 as Minnesota’s second Farmer-Labor Party governor with over 58 percent of the vote. He was defeated only two years later by an even larger margin. An outspoken champion of Minnesota’s workers and family farmers, Benson lacked the political gifts of his charismatic predecessor, Floyd B. Olson.
Elmer Benson was Minnesota’s second—and last—elected Farmer-Labor Party governor. His forthright assertion of a then-radical philosophy provoked strong reaction: While detractors accused him of being sympathetic to communism, ardent supporters admired his attacks on the excesses of capitalism and his support for the rights of farmers.
Elmer Austin Benson was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota. In 1935, Benson was appointed to the U.S. Senate following the death of Thomas Schall. He served as the 24th governor of Minnesota, defeating Republican Martin Nelson in a landslide in Minnesota's 1936 gubernatorial election.
